Classification of Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks
This work addresses security issues for researchers and practitioners in wireless sensor networks, but it is incremental as it focuses on classification and discussion without new methods or data.
The paper tackles the problem of security in wireless sensor networks by presenting a classification of possible attacks and discussing security challenges across network layers, without providing concrete results or numbers.
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), security has a vital importance. Recently, there was a huge interest to propose security solutions in WSNs because of their applications in both civilian and military domains. Adversaries can launch different types of attacks, and cryptography is used to countering these attacks. This paper presents challenges of security and a classification of the different possible attacks in WSNs. The problems of security in each layer of the network's OSI model are discussed.